Re: [rust-dev] rusti: a call to action

2013-06-19 Thread Lindsey Kuper
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Lindsey Kuper lind...@composition.al wrote: On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:01 AM, James Tranovich ja...@openhorizonlabs.com wrote: Just wondering what the general plan of attack was and if there was anything I could do to help. We have a plan to make a plan, but

Re: [rust-dev] rusti: a call to action

2013-05-06 Thread James Tranovich
Hello all, What can I do to help make rusti halfway tolerable? Not to belabor the point, but rusti definitely needs some love -- my git version of rusti as of one or two days ago always crashes with memory_region::~memory_region(): Assertion `false' failed. It will return the evaluated

Re: [rust-dev] rusti: a call to action

2013-05-06 Thread Devin Jeanpierre
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Lindsey Kuper lind...@composition.al wrote: To start with, there are no rusti tests [3]. This means that even when it's working, it doesn't stay that way for long; for instance, as strcat pointed out on IRC today, rusti is more broken now than it was in the 0.6

[rust-dev] rusti: a call to action

2013-05-01 Thread Lindsey Kuper
Hi everyone, I'd like to give rusti more attention and make it actually useful and usable. As I'm sure we're all aware, a good REPL is especially valuable for a new and not-yet-well-documented language. Various open bugs [0, 1, 2] illustrate some of the current problems with rusti, and